At the bottom of the Visual Studio 2010 press release was this nugget that you might’ve skimmed over: In another move to increase integration across the life cycle, Microsoft also announced that VSTS 2010 will provide a unified VSTS Development and Database...

The press release just went live over on MS press pass. Go and have a look at the enticing screenshots and read the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 overview on MSDN . This is the release formally code-named “Rosario”. And best of all, Brian Keller...

Lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with Performance Monitor (or PerfMon for short) to monitor some performance counters on a collection of servers. PerfMon has the ability to log it’s counter collections directly to a SQL ODBC data store. The...

When you do a "Get Latest" in TFS, there are three requests that the server processes: The initial Get() - the server calculates what files are out-of-date in your workspace A Download() for any files that are out-of-date in your workspace The...

(Incidentally this was a question that I got in my interview loop) One of the components of Team Foundation Server is a Notification Service . The MSDN doc describes it like this: The Team Foundation Notification Service is a reliable, asynchronous publish...

This is a question that comes up quite often. The short answer is: No, not in TFS 2008. However, it’s a little more complex than that. The application tier will not install on a 64-bit operating system due to a block in the installer. And even if you...

It’s been 12 months since Brian blogged about Team Foundation Server adoption across all of Microsoft (not just Developer Division Dogfood Statistics ). Since I’m now on the team responsible for internal adoption I’ll share some of the numbers that we...